Robert Penn Warren Quotes

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

Nobody can stop the progress of history.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

A lot of things in history change over time.

In this world, only winter is certain

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Now is our time to change the world

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and tirelessly labor in the vineyards of justice - men and women who represent their clients with integrity, ethics and professionalism, and who think nothing of it as that is what lawyers do. Yet, often these individuals are the very people who change the world.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.